Digikam is not making progress and as professional photographer it drives me crazy that is has no work flow. It's like trying to process your photos through a brick wall. F-spot is part of the new generation of photo editing software and although it has some minor bugs, it is already far more useful.

theres an arugement going on in the fiesty forum about digikam vs f-spot vs gthumb, im personally on the gthumb side of things, it has all the featurs f-spot has, doesnt fsck with your filesystem and ISNT a mono app, mono apps all cause huge cpu spikes on my PC seriously mono sucks.

Stupid question: Why do you even need such apps? I setup my digicam so that it presents itself as disk drive when connected to my PC's. I connect it, GNOME or KDE tell me that there is a new disk drive, I open that new "drive", copy my photos, and voila, I'm done.

Hmmm .. OK, might make sense if you have zillions of pictures. But I use my filemanager for this, e.g. all my pictures of my summer holidays 2005 are in a folder "SummerHolidays2005", and so on, so I don't have any trouble at all finding what I want.

clem wrote: I do the same as you. USB mass storage... open nautilus, copy to Home/Pictures and browse with Nautilus.

Most people do have a "zillion pictures" these days. Besides F-Spot isnâ€™t just about organizing photos they are working on developing a program like mac aperture with Loop, advanced real time tweaking controls (Digikams filters are crap) and a full screen dark room edit mode with thumb bar. Although itâ€™s new, this program is going to be amazing, and is already better laid out than Digikam.

I just installed gthumb and have been playing with it. It has a decent print interface and does all the important things fspot can do.

I'd dump mono altogether which also means getting rid of beagle. Beagle was the app that caused my memory usage to skyrocket when I only had 512M in the box so I got rid of it. I believe tomboy is also a mono app.

Mono is something we could all do without IMHO.

Gthumb instead of fspot
Get rid of Mono and all the apps that depend on it.